The 2014 Tech 50: Anna Ewing

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Anna Ewing
Executive Vice President, Global Technology Solutions
NASDAQ OMX Group
Last year: 13

Promoted in early 2013 after eight years as chief information officer, Anna Ewing oversees businesses that produced 26 percent of Nasdaq OMX Group’s $529 million in first-quarter 2014 net revenue — more than either market data (19 percent) or listing services (11 percent). Ewing, now executive vice president of global technology solutions, manages market technology ($53 million in the first quarter) and corporate solutions ($82 million). Together they brought in $60 million more than in the comparable 2013 period; $58 million of that accrued to corporate solutions, boosted by the June acquisition of Thomson Reuters’ investor and public relations business. Also fueling growth, Ewing says, are the company’s BWise and SMARTS compliance and surveillance products, as well as MiQ, a business intelligence tool released in May that provides “real-time insight” to capital market operators. “We are seeing the need to monitor and manage through the whole trade life cycle,” says the 53-year-old. In market technology sales, Nasdaq signed agreements over the past 12 months with exchange operators in Bahrain, Iraq, Malaysia and Rwanda. It also took a 5 percent stake in Borsa Istanbul, underscoring a shared objective “to move their strategy forward,” Ewing says. She reports to Adena Friedman, a former CFO who in June rejoined the company as president of global corporate, information and technology solutions.

The 2014 Tech 50

1 Dave Cross	1	3 IAN CURCIO 2011	4 FayFoto/Boston	5 Teri Pengilley
Thomas Secunda Bloomberg	Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange	Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp.	Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments	Lance Uggla Markit
6	7	8 Photographer:Charlie Simokaitis	9	10 Mark McQueen
Robert Goldstein BlackRock	David Craig Thomson Reuters	Phupinder Gill CME Group	Anna Ewing NASDAQ OMX Group	R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group
11	12	13	14	15 Christopher Elston
Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures	Dan Mathisson Credit Suisse	Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings	Michael Spencer ICAP	Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
16	17	18 Todd Plitt	19	20
Joe Ratterman BATS Global Markets	Dominique Cerutti Euronext	Ron Levi GFI Group	Gaurav Suri D.E. Shaw Group	Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
21 Larry Lettera/ Camera 1	22	23	24 XT	25
Lou Eccleston S&P Capital IQ	Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets	Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings	Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings	Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group
26 Production	27 Wayne R. Martin	28	29 Thorsten Jansen	30 Adam B. Auel
Christopher Perretta State Street Corp.	Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co.	Peter Carr Morgan Stanley	Hauke Stars Deutsche Börse	Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp.
31	32	33 Paul Elledge	34	35 Stephen Brashear
David Gershon SuperDerivatives	Chris Corrado MSCI	Joseph Squeri Citadel	Tanuja Randery BT Global Services	John Bates Software AG
36	37	38	39 Photo Credit: Kevin Irby	40
Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group	David Gledhill DBS Bank	Simon Garland Kx Systems	Cristóbal Conde FinTech Innovation Lab	Jeff Parker EidoSearch
41	42 Jeff Smith Photo	43	44	45
Kim Fournais & Lars Seier Christensen Saxo Bank	Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates	Tyler Kim MaplesFS	Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp.	Jim Minnick eVestment
46	47	48 tomohisa ichiki	49 David Poultney	50 A.E. Fletcher Photography
Steven O’Hanlon Numerix	Sebastián Ceria Axioma	Yasuki Okai Nomura Research Institute	Niki Beattie Market Structure Partners	Mas Nakachi OpenGamma